The Day in Pictures

LAGOS, DEC 27 :- Children play in a pool at an amusement park during Boxing Day in Ikeja district, in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, December 26, 2016. REUTERS-1R

Image highlights from around the world

BOXING DAY FUN: Children play in a pool at an amusement park during Boxing Day in Ikeja district, in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, on December 26(Reuters)

HE WILL BE MISSED: A woman looks at tributes outside the house of singer George Michael, where he died on Christmas Day, in Goring, southern England, Britain, on December 26 (Reuters)

IN THE DOCK: Jakarta’s Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama walks inside the courtroom during his blasphemy trial at the North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 27 (Reuters)

IN MEMORIAM: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presents a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl in Honolulu, Hawaii, US, December 26 (Reuters)

MY RIGHT NONE TO DISPUTE: A black kite flies under a murmuration of migrating starlings at a landfill near the city of Beer Sheva, southern Israel December 26 (Reuters)

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: A Jet Airways aircraft is seen after it skidded off the runway before takeoff at an airport in Goa, India, on December 27 (Reuters)

EXPLORE THE WILD SIDE: Tribal artistes from Baran distict of Rajasthan perform during the Shilp Gram Utsav in Udaipur on December 26 (UNI)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: An employee controls the arms of a manned biped walking robot “METHOD-2” during a demonstration in Gunpo, South Korea, on December 27 (Reuters)

TOGETHER WE STAND, FOR NOW: Lawmakers defecting from the ruling Saenuri Party pose for photographs during a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on December 27 (Reuters)

INNOCENT AND ALIVE: A Bangladeshi girl plays on a swing, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 27 (Reuters)

US AGAINST MODI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a joint press conference in New Delhi on December 27 (UNI)

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